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“Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid.”

“I don’t —”

“I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

“Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Laters, baby.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Why don't you like me ?" "Because you never stay with me.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“I've never wanted more, until I met you.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”
― Frederick Douglass

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.”
― George Weinberg

“No empty handed man can lure a bird”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
― Willilam Shakespeare, King Lear

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway